you rang her or felt compelled to ring her on the night michael jackson died. they were the same age, similar problems. you recognized she might be going through turmoil about that. tell me about that. >> i haven't talked about it publicly. i'm surprised you know that. how do you know that? >> i know everything, tyler. >> i called her that night, i had been trying to get her all day, and i called her that night. and she had donny hathaway in the background, and we talked a while, and she was really broken up about his death, and i was trying desperately to get her to let me to come over to the house and sit with her and know she's okay, and whitney in true fashion, after me trying five, ten different times, she said listen, i'm a mother and a woman and i'm single and you're not coming over to my house in the middle of the night. and the way that only she could. but it's beyond tragic. and i was so disgusted, i must tell you, i was so disgusted at the media and the way they handled her death. it was -- it was so blatantly disrespectful. the paparazzi. this is wh